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collected at L'Atalaye, Haiti, at light, February 28, 1928, and March 

 3, 1928, by A. J. Poole ; one paratype, collected in the San Francisco 

 Mountains, Dominican Republic, during September, 1905, by August 

 Busck; two paratypes, received from the American Museum of 

 Natural History, one collected at Port au Prince, Haiti, the other 

 labeled " Santo Domingo," both collected by F. H. M, De Booy, and 

 presented to the museum by the G. G. Heye Haitian Expedition; 

 and one paratype received from the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy and labeled " Santo Domingo." 



This species resembles guttiventre Chevrolat, but can be separated 

 from that species in being subopaque, pronotum densely punctured, 

 without distinct glabrous spots, and the last visible abdominal ter- 

 gite elongate, strongly attenuate, and deeply, narrowl}'' emarginate 

 at apex. 



ELAPHIDION CONFUSUM. new species 



Male. — Broadly elongate, moderately convex above, and similar 

 in form to splendidum Fisher. Above and beneath uniformly red- 

 dish brown, strongly shining, and irregularly clothed with white 

 pubescence. 



Head sparsely, coarsely, irregularly punctate, rather densely, irreg- 

 ularly clothed with moderately long, recumbent, white pubescence, 

 front distinctly wider than long, nearly flat between the antennal 

 tubercles, which are widely separated, but not elevated; eyes deeply 

 emarginate, separated from each other on the top by nearly three 

 times the width of the upper lobe. Antenna slightly longer than 

 the body, basal joints coarsely, sparsely j)unctate, sparsely clothed 

 with long, recumbent and erect, white hairs, apical joints finely, 

 densely punctate, densely clothed with short, recumbent pubescence; 

 joints 3 and 4 strongly unispinose at apices; joints 5 to 10 more or 

 less bispinose; first joint robust, moderately clavate, subequal in 

 length to the fourth joint, which is considerably shorter than the 

 third; eleventh joint subequal in length to the tenth. 



Pronotum feebly wider than long, and about equal in width at 

 base and apex; sides strongly, arcuately rounded; disk nearly even, 

 and ornamented with distinct, smooth, glabrous spots as follows: 

 An elongate, median spot and a small, round spot on each side in 

 front of middle, behind which is a narrow, longitudinal, arcuate spot 

 (sometimes interrupted, and forming two spots) ; surface coarsely 

 alveolate-punctate, and densely clothed with long, recumbent, white 

 pubescence, which conceals the surface in well-preserved specimens. 



Elytra three times as long as pronotum, and at base slightly wider 

 than pronotum at middle ; sides vaguely narrowed from base to near 

 the tips, which are separately, broadly truncate, bispinose, with the 

 lateral spine much longer than the sutural one; surface sparsely, 



